C++ is a really tough language, especially when compared to more modern ones (Python, Ruby, Scala,..). There are two things which I've always found frustrating

C++ is a really tough language, especially when compared to more modern ones (Python, Ruby, Scala,..). There are two things which I've always found frustrating about the language. The first is that there are so many arcane elements to it that even highly experienced devs can make mem alloc mistakes that will cause the app to SIGSEGV down the road, and it's pure misery to root these out. The 2nd has to do with that it's not really cross platform in that it can be super hard to move code between win and nix, something that languages like Java and Python have all but made transparent. I know there's a lot of work done on C++ the last few years, but nowadays while we still write C++ for some parts of our app there's almost always a legacy part to it.